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DIED. ROBERTO MATTA ECHAURREN, 91, Chilean surrealist known as Matta, whose hallucinatory paintings heavily influenced such artists as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko; in Tarquinia, Italy. His eerie mutants and globs of clashing color were, he said, "the subconscious in its burning, liquid state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 9, 2002 | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...DIED. ROBERTO MATTA ECHAURREN, 91, Chilean painter whose hallucinatory images of cosmic dream worlds made him a leading Surrealist artist; in Civitavecchia, near Tarquinia, Italy. Matta lik-ened his images to the experience of clasping one's eyes shut against the light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...early 1920s, Breton's writings put forward a new way of looking at life as a whole. Surrealism began as a literary movement, but its tenets led beyond culture--even though, today, it is chiefly manifested in art--towards what the Chilean artist Sebastion Antonio Matta Echaurren maintained to be "the total emancipation of man." For Breton's message was as revolutionary as any of the political tracts of the time...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: A Surrealist's Metamorphosis | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

Among the best living arguments for abstractionism is a 40-year-old Chilean named Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren, who calls himself simply "Matta." He lives with his wife and baby boy in a sunny apartment in Rome, paints only when he feels like it, and spends most of his leisure time grinding a rented hand organ on the streets. The mechanical music he grinds out gives Matta and his small boy assistant little profit, but Matta enjoys watching the faces of his listeners at the sidewalk cafes. Matta's latest show, opening next week in Manhattan, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mysteries of the Morning | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

Other surrealists whose pictures attracted crowds were Chilean-born Matta Echaurren, a specialist in vaguely visceral abstractions, and Leon Kelly, a U.S.-born newcomer, who had been painting odd dreams in Paris and Philadelphia for years, but had waited a long time to show them in broad daylight. Drawn with the care of an Italian Renaissance master, Kelly's tenuous vistas had a quietly horrifying aspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Surrealists in Exile | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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